On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon Dec 23 2013 at 11:38:37 PM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote: > >> An alternative to this would be to have an image function that gives an >> image alpha, e.g.: >> >> background-image: alpha-image(foo.png, 50%); >> >> This would seem preferable to a property that can only apply alpha to >> background images. >> > > This already exists, in the form of cross-fade(). The default value of > the second argument is "transparent", so "cross-fade(url(foo.png) 50%)" > will give you a half-transparent image. > So, we have 2 ways of controlling the opacity of a background image (cross-fade and filter(..., opacity())) but they both suffer from the issue that you have to repeat all the CSS images to make the transition/animation work. Alan, David, are you OK with this?
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